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  • Couples who have premarital sex to be considered married Madras High Court

    In what can be seen as a new twist to the concept of premarital sex, the Madras High Court has in a judgement said if any unmarried couple of the right legal age "indulge in sexual gratification," this will be considered a valid marriage and they could be termed "husband and wife. The court said that if a bachelor has completed 21 years of age and an unmarried woman 18 years, they have acquired ...

  • Driver says he was speeding so he could dry car

    BLACK DIAMOND, Alberta -- He was drying off his freshly washed car.That's what the Canadian man told the Mounties when they stopped him doing 180 kilometers per hour (112 mph) south on Highway 22 south of Black Diamond, Alberta in Western Canada.The driver, a 67-year-old who lives in the area, was in court Monday. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said Tuesday the judge fined the man ...

  • True Grape Road 13 reflects the Okanagan’s historic Golden Mile

    EDMONTON - Road 13 Honest John's Red 2011, Okanagan, B.C.; $26.99; CSPC: 290684"It's all about the dirt." A simple, concise, seemingly obvious statement, yet inexplicably ignored by too many wineries around the world. But the motto ...

  • Fast and curious Vancouver Island driver caught going 221 kmh loses car

    This 6,018-sq-ft penthouse condo at 1139 W. Cordova St. in Vancouver features three bedrooms with private sundecks, five bathrooms, rooftop deck with patio and 360-degree views of the North Shore, Burrard Inlet, Stanley Park and downtown Vancouver. Take a ...

  • Naked gymnast faces charges over San Francisco transit stop antics

    SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A trained gymnast whose naked acrobatics and harassment of passengers at a San Francisco public transit station were captured on video and circulated widely on the Internet is facing criminal charges over his antics, authorities said on ...

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Hoosiers [Blu-Ray]

Hoosiers [Blu-Ray]

Since its release more than 25 years ago, Hoosiers has become one of the most beloved of sports films. From a pure genre standpoint, that shouldnt be surprising since it encompasses everything we love about such films, particularly the romanticizing of an underdog through the filter of he ... ...

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  • Gravestone of late Mayor Koch had birth date wrong

    A worker at the Trinity Cemetery in Manhattan noticed last week that the gravestone's inscription shaved 18 years off the mayor's life after a stonecutter transposed two digits in his birth year, a Trinity spokeswoman said on ...

  • Rep. Nadler Post-Five Month Abortion Ban ‘Morally Outrageous’

    - Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) said Tuesday it is "morally outrageous" to ban abortions after five months of pregnancy. "It is morally outrageous, frankly," Nadler said about the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (H.R. 1797), a bill that would ban abortions 20 weeks post-fertilization, or five months into ...

  • Minn. mother son accused of stealing gopher feet

    PRESTON, Minn. (AP) -- A mother and her 18-year-old son from southeastern Minnesota are accused of stealing nearly $5,000 in frozen gopher feet and selling them for a ...

  • Man wins lottery twice in 24 hours

    Cary Collings of Puyallup, Wash., recently won the lottery not once, but twice, within 24 hours. The 61-year-old initially won $55,555 in the "Red Hot 5's" scratch-off ticket lottery on June 14. The next morning, after claiming his prize money at Washington's Lottery Federal Way office, he stop to get a pizza for lunch, Seattle TV station KCPQ reported. While waiting for his ...

  • The Strange World of Dolphin-Assisted Therapy

    A dolphin (Reuters).Dolphins are fascinating. Intelligent and interested in humans, the cetaceans have been part of the entertainment business since long before Sea World. In a strange twist, though, captive dolphins are now being pressed into service as psychological healers through a practice known as "dolphin-assisted therapy." In an essay published today at Aeon, neuroscientist ...

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